TASS Russian News Agency:

Russia will carry out three test launches of its advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this year, sources in Russia’s defense industry and close to the Russian defense ministry have told TASS.

“Three launches of the Sarmat ICBM will be carried out as part of flight development tests in 2021,” one of them said.

“The first launch of the Sarmat ICBM within the framework of flight development tests will be carried out tentatively in the third quarter of 2021, a field at the Kura testing range on Kamchatka will be a target,” another source said.

The sources told TASS that all the three launches would be performed from a silo at the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia. One of those missiles will probably be fired at its maximum range.

State trials of Sarmat are due to begin in 2022, with first regiment entering combat service at the end of the year, the sources said…



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